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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-06-02
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Successful plans of transformed people
The proverb does not say "Commit your plans to the Lord and your actions will succeed". God is not so interested in blessing our plans as much as His plans. Our plans need to be His plans to succeed.…
Created 1 day ago
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be filled with the spirit of righteousness
We do not receive the filling of the Spirit by trying to obey righteousness. Rather we are filled with the Spirit in order that we might fulfill the righteous requirements of the law. See also Romans…
Created 4 months ago
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where do you count yourself blessed?
Would we have greater peace, greater joy, greater spiritual strength and power, greater intimacy with the Lord, if we learned to meditate on and be thankful for the permanent blessings that are ours "in…
Created 5 months ago
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we cling; God upholds
As we cling to God with all that is within us, as weak as it is, God with His mighty strength holds us "steady as a post" (the Message). The issue is not how strong is your faith but rather how strong…
Created 5 months ago
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waiting on the name
What does it mean to "wait on" (kjv) or "wait for" (esv) the name of the Lord? A servant is one who waits upon the word of his master, like angels who "stand in the presence of the Lord" waiting to be…
Created 5 months ago
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knowledge saves us
To have knowledge is fundamental to salvation. Faith leads to necessary action but that faith must be based on knowledge of reality. The words of the wicked destroy because they sow false ideas, they…
Created 5 months ago
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God's choice
it is God's choice, not ours, that authorizes and enables us to come intonHis presence
Created 5 months ago
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faith glorifies God
This passage seems to demonstrate that the way we glorify God is by calling on Him in faith. It's not something we do but something we trust God to do that glorifies Him
Created 6 months ago
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the Spirit Helps Us Bear
the Holy Spirit is given to help us bear the burden of ministry, to carry the burden of other people
Created 6 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-10-31
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popularity
We must not expect that the world to have a good opinion of the Way if we are faithfully following it. It will be denounced and we may feel denounced or demoralized or scandalized. Actually this denouncement…
Created 7 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-10-02
